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> "My question for reddit: what would you do if you had $20M in the bank?" Fight death. - Fight death of individuals: Cryonic preservation: http://www.cryonics.org/ -- see also http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cryonics Basic research on aging and fighting it: http://mprize.org/ - Prevent the extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life: Oxford Future of Humanity Institute - academic research on global catastrophic…
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> "My question for reddit: what would you do if you had $20M in the bank?" Fight death. - Fight death of individuals: Cryonic preservation: http://www.cryonics.org/ -- see also http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cryonics Basic research on aging and fighting it: http://mprize.org/ - Prevent the extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life: Oxford Future of Humanity Institute - academic research on global catastrophic…
Where to hang out with other people interested in rational philanthropy with maximum utilitarian impact per marginal dollar As far as the human race is concerned, pretty much everything you listed (cryonics, anti-aging, preparing for AI that may never be invented, etc) has the least amount of utility per dollar spent.
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Where to hang out with other people interested in rational philanthropy with maximum utilitarian impact per marginal dollar As far as the human race is concerned, pretty much everything you listed (cryonics, anti-aging, preparing for AI that may never be invented, etc) has the least amount of utility per dollar spent.
Do you have stats showing anti-aging research has low benefit per dollar spent? Or do you just have some kind of prejudice against life? Aubrey de Grey says it's cheap, as these things go.
Now you might argue that one additional year for an adult is more valuable to society than one additional year for a child, but I'd rather not quibble over the exact value of a year of life. There are counterarguments; how many genius do you think we lose in Africa because of inadequate medicine and education?
EDIT: If it's cheaper than optimizing on the low end, then of course I would support optimizing on the high end. But given the large number of human beings that die young for stupid reasons, I can't imagine that the high end is cheaper. Thanks for pointing out Aubrey de Grey, though. I'll do some reading.
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If he didn't want people to read his "ask me anything" post, he would not have made one on reddit.
Right so let's violate the privacy of every interesting person who posts things online. Oh wait, that's what was done with _why. Seemed to work out well, didn't it? I don't even want to think about how many interesting Ruby innovations were lost as a result. Bottom line: the information is meant to be read but decency and common sense should prevent you from probing deeper. If you don't follow these guidelines, inter…
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have any idea what the startup was?
1. He said that it was sold between 1 year ago and 4 years ago. In addition, his company is still going. 2. He said that before taxes he had 30 million dollars, so the startup was sold for >=30 million dollars. 3. He is married and has an 11 year old daughter (and at least one more kid). Him and his wife are at least 30 years old. 4. At least one newspaper reported on him selling his startup. I tried using CrunchBase…
He got 30M. That means that startup was sold for much more than that (2-300M?)
> "My question for reddit: what would you do if you had $20M in the bank?" Fight death. - Fight death of individuals: Cryonic preservation: http://www.cryonics.org/ -- see also http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cryonics Basic research on aging and fighting it: http://mprize.org/ - Prevent the extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life: Oxford Future of Humanity Institute - academic research on global catastrophic…
Then what? ;)
basically you have 3 choices. - try to help others(less fortunate). Setup/contribute to charities, teach, cure, feed... - try to change the world. promote democracy in russia, try to figure out how gravity works, actively support/participate on a team that does something visionary such as new energy initiatives or space exploration. - defer the question for some time. Try to turn 20 into 200.
- have a bunch of fun You should probably do this, plus one of the other three.
Would it be possible to have AMAs and AMAAs here?
Go for it
I visit HN mainly for the technical/startup articles. I would prefer, personally, for general interest items to remain on reddit, since I check both. It's not good vs. evil! We can have both.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/azgs6/iama_guy_who_sol...